Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The Federal Government has insisted that lecturers will not be paid for work not done in line with the ‘no work no pay’ policy.
Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, stated this while speaking to state house correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, on Wednesday.
ASUU had embarked on an indefinite strike action on February 14. But the strike was called off in October following the intervention of the Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt Hon Femi Gbajabiamila and an order of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN).
However, the union members got half salaries at the end of October, a move which did not go down well with the lecturers.
Commenting on the planned protest of ASUU over pro-rata October salary payment, Adamu said the position of the Federal Government was that the lecturers “would not be paid for work not done.”
While reacting to the allegation made by the President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodoke, that paying the lecturers on pro-rata basis was a ploy to make them casual workers, the ministry said: “Nobody can make university lecturers casual workers.”
